TomT wrote:To me, the annual battery check is worse than useless since not only does it not give any meaningful information to the owner, it also gives a false sense of security...

I agree it is useless to the owner, but I'm also fairly certain that there is some good information going to Nissan. I hope Nissan would help the customer based on this information, but they could just keep it to themselves. GaryGid's friend who was called back to the dealership to have a battery repair after his checkup is a sign that Nissan is using this data to help the customer when necessary.

Great to hear, Mike! This appears to be roughly tracking with other Leafs in SoCal.

Boomer23 wrote:Here's another data point.

Great data, thank you for sharing, Boomer. I've noticed that Gary, Tom, 91040 and yourself have the best Gid readings in SoCal. This could be just a coincidence, but I was wondering if it was a bit cooler where you live? Aside from that, I'm not sure why there is such a difference between jp's, Mike's and your Leaf for example. Especially since you appear to be always charging to 100%, which is supposedly harder on the battery.

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Yes, that is why I said "to the owner..." It would be nice if some of that Nissan info actually filtered down to us "owners..." (Perhaps Phil's Leafscan will be able to make it available to us.) It will be interesting to see if Nissan contacts any of the folks who have lost capacity bars when they go in for their next battery check and Nissan receives the data...

palmermd wrote:

TomT wrote:To me, the annual battery check is worse than useless since not only does it not give any meaningful information to the owner, it also gives a false sense of security...

I agree it is useless to the owner, but I'm also fairly certain that there is some good information going to Nissan. I hope Nissan would help the customer based on this information, but they could just keep it to themselves. GaryGid's friend who was called back to the dealership to have a battery repair after his checkup is a sign that Nissan is using this data to help the customer when necessary.

Great to hear, Mike! This appears to be roughly tracking with other Leafs is SoCal.

Boomer23 wrote:Here's another data point.

Great data, thank you for sharing, Boomer. I've noticed that Gary, Tom, 91040 and yourself have the best Gid readings in SoCal. This could be just a coincidence, but I was wondering if it was a bit cooler where you live? Aside from that, I'm not sure why there is such a difference between jp's, Mike's and your Leaf for example. Especially since you appear to be always charging to 100%, which is supposedly harder on the battery.

Well, let's see. I'm about 7 miles from the beach. Summer temps can be 10 degrees warmer at Gary's house. Not sure exactly where TomT is from the beach, but the valleys tend to be warmer. Tbleakne lives in a hot summer area and 91040 is also in one of the warm summer areas. Mwalsh and JPV are a bit further inland than I am, so maybe five degrees warmer in summer.

One thing that stands out to me is that Mwalsh and JPV both have regular commutes on freeways, while Gary, 91040 and I have more intermittent freeway use with days of local driving and shorter mileages interspersed.

Boomer23 wrote:>>> May started out with 280 and 281, but started dropping on May 6 with 272 Gid after a 100% charge from 103 Gid. I haven't seen anything above 279 Gid since May 4, with low readings of 272, 274, 274, 275, 272, 272, 276, 273, 269, 275, 270, and today 274.

I had understood you were down much more. 275/281 = 97.8 %. Since your battery is doing so well, in spite of mostly 100% charges, perhaps you could give us some voltage readings. As described in my earlier post on pg 40 of this thread, the maximum voltage at 100% charge can tell us whether our battery packs are balanced.

if the pack is balanced at 100% charge, all the cell-pairs will have the maximum allowed voltage, and the total pack voltage displayed by the SOC meter will also be at a fixed maximum that should be the same for everyone. Conversely, the pack will be out-of-balance if and only if the pack total voltage is less than this maximum, because some of the cell-pairs are not at their maximum values.

Great to hear, Mike! This appears to be roughly tracking with other Leafs is SoCal.

Boomer23 wrote:Here's another data point.

Great data, thank you for sharing, Boomer. I've noticed that Gary, Tom, 91040 and yourself have the best Gid readings in SoCal. This could be just a coincidence, but I was wondering if it was a bit cooler where you live? Aside from that, I'm not sure why there is such a difference between jp's, Mike's and your Leaf for example. Especially since you appear to be always charging to 100%, which is supposedly harder on the battery.